NTC Multiple Subjects Content For Primary Past Question 1
National Teaching Council Licensure Exams NTC Multiple Subjects Content For Primary Past Question (English)
1. On the Rank Scale, the ……………………… is registered as the lowest grammatical unit.
A. clause
B. morpheme ANSWER
C. sentence
D. word Testing
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2. The skills that the new English Language curriculum entreats teachers to help learners acquire are referred to as
A. Contemporary skills
B. Core competencies ANSWER
C. General skills
D. Pre-requisite skills
3. The witch we saw had a car which could fly. The underlined words in the statement can be described as
A. Homographs
B. homonyms
C. homophemes
D. homophones ANSWER
4. The following words have voiced consonants except
A. lay
B. bay
C. ray
D. say ANSWER
5. Some teachers at Crystal Preparatory School judged Bismark’s academic performance based on his handwriting. Today, he has switched schools. His writing is legible and his performance has improved remarkably. Which of these conditions best describes Bismark’s situation at his former school?
A. Dysarthria
B. Dyscalculia
C. Dysgraphia ANSWER
D. Dyslexia
6. Zeinab and Tenkorang always make fun of accents and pronunciations in class. One day, in a reading and comprehension lesson, they laughed so hard that it affected everyone. This was because almost the entire class struggled to read the sentences “A fly and a flea flew into a flue” and “My shoe shall soon shine” very fast. Which literary device will you assign these sentences to?
A. Alliteration ANSWER
B. Assonance
C. Oxymoron
D. Personification
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7. Cletus believes that teaching personal pronouns can be quite confusing especially when their subjective forms have to change to objective forms when they immediately follow a preposition. Which of the following sentences exemplifies Cletus’ case?
A. Ama’s pencils were given to I.
B. Andy’s math set was given to he.
C. She gave the books to us.
D. The pens were given to we. ANSWER
8. Madam Asabea is the new class teacher for Primary 3. She intends to use her first reading and comprehension lesson to nurture the reading abilities of her new learners. Which of the following is Madam Asabea most likely to do during the lesson?
A. Ask learners to read silently.
B. Discuss the topic ANSWER
C. Preview vocabulary
D. Talk to learners about the text
9. When Elorm was called to tell his side of the story, he gave details about what actually happened. Which literary element best describes Elorm’s action?
A. Plot
B. Point of view ANSWER
C. Setting
D. Theme
10. A group of primary teachers in the Asunafo District believe that encouraging learners to construct meaningful sentences also constitutes writing. Which writing skill component appears to be the focus of these teachers?
A. Compositional skill
B. Domain knowledge
C. Grammatical skill ANSWER
D. Literary skill
11. Mrs. Amegah gave her Basic 6 learners a list of words to punctuate. Which among these words is correctly punctuated?.
• Brother in law
• Father-in-law ANSWER
• Mother in-law
• Sister-in law
12. It is important that learners learning to become creative writers get an understanding of the topics they write on. This means that primary school teachers should encourage learners to demonstrate knowledge of the things they want to talk about in writing. Which writing skill component should be of concern to the teachers?
A. Compositional skill
B. Domain knowledge ANSWER
C. Grammatical skill
D. Literary skill
13. In your new school, you just found out that lower primary school teachers always read key words and passages and ask the learners to repeat after them. They usually start reading words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Which reading theory can be said to have influenced this classroom practice?
A. The cognitive view
B. The schema theory
C. The socio-cultural view
D. The traditional bottom-up view ANSWER
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14. The general outcomes or specific aims of the English Language curriculum are many. However, one of these can certainly not be part of them.
A. acquire a wide stock of vocabulary
B. cultivate the habit of reading widely for pleasure
C. read for cultural segregation purposes
D. read with pleasure literary material ANSWER
15. Madam Judith is serious about helping her learners to talk in and out of the classroom. She has been trying every technique to achieve this purpose but to no avail. As a colleague teacher, which of these strategies are you likely to recommend to her?
A. Debate
B. Dialogue ANSWER
C. Storytelling
D. Use of audio-visual
16. A two-day conference was organized for language and literacy teachers across pre-tertiary schools in the Techiman Municipality. The speaker advised that reading skills can effectively be imparted and acquired when texts, contexts and messages are related to past experiences of the learner. Which theory of reading clearly defines the speaker’s advice?
A. The schema theory ANSWER
B. The top-down processing theory
C. The traditional bottom-up view theory
D. The transactional theory
17. The headteacher for Ejisu Abankro Primary School requested that teachers who are on the National Service programme in his school design and present a sequence that will show topics that are to be taught. What exactly is the headteacher demanding of the teachers?
A. Lesson plan
B. Scheme of work ANSWER
C. Subject curriculum
D. Teacher’s resource pack
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18. Pre-tertiary teachers in Ghana are always blamed for learners’writing problems including even that of tertiary students. As a primary school teacher who seems unprepared to take the blame, which of the following strategies will you avoid in developing writing skills at the primary school level?
A. Content experience ANSWER
B. Controlled practice
C. Modelling
D. Organization of ideas
19. As a language and literacy teacher for Basic 1, which among these assessment tools are you likely to consider to monitor learners’ language learning progress?
A. Interviews
B. Observation ANSWER
C. Questionnaire
D. Test
20. Which form of reading is characterized by quick eye movements and aims at identifying specific information in a text?
A. Extensive reading
B. Intensive reading
C. Scanning ANSWER
D. Skimming
21. The value of the digit 5 in the number 2265999 is
A. fifty
B. five hundred
C. five thousand ANSWER
D. five million
22. What is the order of rotational symmetry of a scalene triangle?
• 1 ANSWER
• 2
• 3
• 4
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23. All the following are the domains that should always focus on assessment except professional
A. Development ANSWER
B. knowledge
C. practice
D. skills
24. Which of the following is not a strategy to assess learning in an effective mathematics classroom?
A. Demonstrating acceptance of learners’ divergent views
B. Influencing learning by posing challenging and interesting questions
C. Solving all mathematics problems on the board and asking learners to copy ANSWER
D. Using learners’ responses as constructive feedback
25. If x*y=2x+3y-xy, then 5*3 is equal to
• 4 ANSWER
• 6
• 8
• 10
26. Spatial awareness development by learners is key for their spatial sense. Which of the following activities is useful in the development of learners’ spatial sense?
I Giving learners freedom to explore
II. Playing of Hide-and-Seek Games by learners
III. Stacking and rearranging of objects by learners
IV.Learners fitting things together and taking them apart
A. I only
B. I and II only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II, III and IV ANSWER
27. Write 1011001_2 in base ten.
A. 89
B. 99 ANSWER
C. 109
D. 119
28. A mathematics educator’s belief can be explained as follows:
I. A social property of mathematical knowledge
II. A statement that is not directly related to scientific knowledge
III. A statement that contradicts some scientific domain
IV. Psychological property which is more uncertain than knowledge
A. I only
B. I and IV only
C. II, III, and IV only ANSWER
D. IV only
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29. As part of your preparation for a system of linear equations class, how would you orderly arrange the following steps to help your learners’ understanding?
I. Solving the given equation.
II. Reading the problem carefully and determining what you want to find.
III. Writing the equation for the solution
IV. Assigning variables to the unknown quantities
A. I, II, III, IV
B. II, I, IV, III
C. II, III, I, IV
D. II, IV, III, I ANSWER
30. The probability of an athlete taking part in a race is 1/7. The probability that he wins the race is 1/3. What is the probability that he takes part and wins the race?
A. 1/10
B. 2/10
C. 1/21 ANSWER
D. 10/21
31. The probability of rolling a die and getting the face 4 turning up is 1/6. Which of the following will you use in explaining 1 and 6 in the fraction to a Basic 6 pupil?
I. S={1,2,3,4,5,6} is all possible outcomes of faces turning up.
II. The number 6 is called the sample space
III. The number 1 means 4 appeared only once as an event E={4} with n(E)=1
IV. The number 4 means 4 appeared only once as an event E={4} with n(E)=1
IV.The probability of throwing a die and 4 showing up is 1/6.
A. I, II, III, V
B. I, II, IV, V
C. I, III, V ANSWER
D. I, IV, V
32. A mason hired a casual worker to fill a cubic rubber tank of length 1.3m with water. The worker used a 64-litre container. If the mason agreed to pay GH₵2.15 for a container of water fetched, calculate the amount of money the mason paid the labourer to fill the tank with water.
A. GHC 54.31
B. GHC 56.00
C. GHC 63.81
D. GHC 73.81 ANSWER
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33. The function f and g of the real variable x is defined as f:x →1-2x and g:x→1/(x+3). Determine the domain and inverse function of the function g.
A. {x:x∈R,}, g^(-1) (x)=x/(1-3x)
B. {x:x∈R,x+3≠0 }, g^(-1) (x)=(1-3x)/x
C. {x:x∈R,x+3=0 }, g^(-1) (x)=x/(1-3x)
D. {x:x∈R,x-3≠0 }, g^(-1) (x)=(1-3x)/x ANSWER
34. After an algebraic expression lesson, your learners wrote the phrase ‘the product of 5 and the sum of a and b’ using symbols is …
A. 5+a+b
B. 5+a×b
C. 5(a+b) ANSWER
D. 5a+b
35. Lines are drawn to intersect two lines and the number of points of intersection counted and recorded. What would be the number of intersections for the 100th term.
A. 100
B. 200 ANSWER
C. 300
D. 400
36. Ato is 5 years older than Musa, and Esi is twice as old as Ato. The total of their ages is 103 years. Find Musa’s age.
A. 12
B. 22 ANSWER
C. 32
D. 42
37. Abena bought 2/3 grams of flour of an Olonka container and used 1/4 grams of it for each loaf of bread. Which of the following expressions depicts the number of loaves of bread she can produce?
A. 2/3+1/4
B. 2/3-1/4
C. 2/3×1/4
D. 2/3÷1/4 ANSWER
38. Find the mode for the data set 5, 7, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 4.
• 4
• 7
• 5 and 6
• 4 and 7 ANSWER
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39. A teacher in an upper primary class explained a concept as the measure of the distances round a closed plane figure. Which concept is this?
A. Area
B. Capacity
C. Perimeter ANSWER
D. Volume
40. Age (Years) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Frequency 4 3 1 3 6 2 4 2 26. Calculate the mean age from Table 1
A. 1.00
B. 3.04
C. 4.94
D. 9.44 ANSWER
41. On a trip to the Paga crocodile pond, Ananse told his teacher that the crocodiles look like lizards. The teacher explained that they look alike because both are…
A. birds.
B. insects
C. mammals.
D. reptiles. ANSWERS
42. Mansa and Kande were arguing about the objects in the solar system. As their science teacher, which object in the solar system will you tell them is the biggest?
A. Earth
B. Moon
C. Star
D. Sun ANSWERS
43. Jack wants to minimize waste in his house. Which of these will be an appropriate approach to help him?
A. Bringing new items
B. Buying more items
C. Donating items ANSWERS
D. Hoarding items
44. Madam Tonga is teaching her Class 6 learners the water cycle. Which of the following will she not mention as being part of the water cycle?
A. Condensation
B. Crystallization ANSWERS
C. Evaporation
D. Precipitation
45. John’s mother told him to walk slowly because the floor was slippery. Which of the following accounts for the slippery nature of the floor? Reduced…
• compressional force
• frictional force ANSWERS
• gravitational force
• magnetic force
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46. During a science lesson, Mavis asked her teacher how cholera can be prevented since her cousin had that disease. Which of the following suggestions will not be an appropriate preventive measure?
A. Bathing in the rain ANSWERS
B. Keeping clean surroundings
C. Protecting food from houseflies
D. Washing hands with before eating
47. In the course of teaching properties of metals to your students, one student got confused between malleability and ductility of metals. How best can you explain these two concepts to that student?
A. Malleability and ductility are the same properties.
B. Malleability and ductility are unrelated properties.
C. Malleability is the ability of a metal to be hammered into a sheet, while ductility is the ability to be stretched into a wire. ANSWERS
D. D. Malleability is the ability of a metal to be stretched into a wire, while ductility is the ability to be hammered into a sheet.
48. In a class experiment on electrical circuit, Ama connected the wire to the capacitor, the battery and the bulb but left the key open. What should she expect to happen to the electrical circuit?
A. Current will flow through the circuit.
B. Current will not flow through the circuit. ANSWERS
C. Nothing will happen to the circuit.
D. The light will shine brighter.
49. Which of the following is the Environmental Protection Agency likely to tell a community to do in order to reduce climate change?
A. People should engage in bush burning.
B. People should increase smoke from their cars.
C. The community should cut down more trees.
D. The community should plant more trees. ANSWERS
50. In an experiment with two lighted candles, one candle was covered with a glass jar after sometime. Dei could not understand why the covered candle went off. As the teacher of Dei, what will be your explanation to him? The covered candle went off because it
A. lacked enough oxygen. ANSWERS
B. had enough oxygen
C. had stable wick
D. had too much light.
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